[Mariner]

So, tell me again how a mask makes contracting the disease MORE likely?

Assuming the same behaviors, with and without mask.

[trebb]

Can't assume same behaviors with/without a mask - the mask itself changes behaviors and changes one's sense of perceptions of danger/safety...the mask cannot stop anything getting to the eyes and one may not consider that. The mask is an object that must be put on/taken off and a potential carrier of the virus,,,the act of putting it on and taking it off put your hands up where they ain't supposed to go.

Surely you can grasp that when the SG said they "may be" more dangerous than not wearing one, it was because he knows how people often slip up "just a teeny bit" when handling protective gear - and that's the professionals.

I have nothing against those who want to wear a mask - but I don't want them using twisted logic to try to compel me or others to wear one too...I know they don't make me any safer if even one sick person is out there w/o one.